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Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by petercooper »

emmett wrote: post #242
rrhyne wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you dropped the part about never seeing an ad there again, you could probably get display Ad companies to pay you for each explosion as a click, because if a user exploded it, then they saw the ad. Then, you'd LOVE ads!

Ad companies would probably like that anyway...they wouldn't be wasting their money advertising to people who were not interested in their ads.

Much of the point of advertising is to convince (or remind) those who are not already convinced (or aware). Advertising is not advertising if you are hitting people eager to see your message - that's marketing.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by vivekamn »

A location aware twitter app, which will filter tweets based on where I am right now. It can figure out the location relevance of a tweet by scanning its content or by its origin(if the senders are using your client which will geo tag it?). In short, if I am in SFO, I want to hear only about tweets relevant to SFO.

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Post by owkaye »

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #244
tremendo wrote: post #182

A Pandora equivalent for pr0n. Enter/grade a few images you like or dislike, build a profile and "stations" to group similar kinds of content. Maybe these profiles could be condensed into some short-length string--say a Meyer-Briggs type of string (INTP, etc)--that you can then carry with you without having to actually give out personal info, but that says hey, according to this standard, these are my likes/dislikes…

I've wondered myself about the market for allowing people to drill down through multiple fetishes. the vast majority of sites organize by single fetishes. what if you could input a bunch of fetishes and it would automatically find the videos that have the most tags in common with your search? this would work best with something that supported user tags, so people could find and tag specific elements.

"what if you could input a bunch of fetishes and it would automatically find the videos that have the most tags in common with your search?"

Something like tiava.com?

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by owkaye »

yargseiks wrote: post #13

Ha. We were required to use Poseidon for UML, but it was such a pain and crashed so often that we ended up making all our UML Diagrams in Dia (which is a nice enough and lightweight program, if slightly clunky; you might want to check it out). Yet instead of being pleased or even just ambivalent about the entire enterprise, our teacher got mad that we used a tool other than the prescribed one. I never really understo…

Maybe your teacher's goal was to encourage people in the class to learn Poseidon so he could hire them on a private project. Or maybe he/she was looking for a genius who would be able to figure out how to code Poseidon in such a way that it would not crash.

There are lots of other reasons why a teacher might set specific rules for an exercise such as this, too. Unfortunately you chose to ignore the instructions -- and you made the mistake of second-guessing him/her -- assuming that the teacher's goal was the end result and not the process of getting there.

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Post by redman »

tremendo wrote: post #182

A Pandora equivalent for pr0n. Enter/grade a few images you like or dislike, build a profile and "stations" to group similar kinds of content. Maybe these profiles could be condensed into some short-length string--say a Meyer-Briggs type of string (INTP, etc)--that you can then carry with you without having to actually give out personal info, but that says hey, according to this standard, these are my likes/dislikes…

See nakedtube.com. We've got a recommendation engine based on each video's unique DNA/content.
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